Robotics Engineer - Manipulation focus
General Robotics, Redmond, WA
About the job
About this Role
We're hiring Robotics Engineers to bring state-of-the-art manipulation methods into the GRID platform. You'll work at the frontier of autonomous manipulation, building production-grade policies that generalize across embodiments — from fixed-base robotic arms and mobile manipulators to humanoids. This is a role for engineers who want their research to ship. You'll move between training runs, simulation, and real hardware in customer environments.
Responsibilities
- Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in robotics and foundation models.
- Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.
- Train, adapt, and deploy manipulation foundation models — vision-language-action (VLA) policies, world action models (WAMs), reinforcement learning, and agentic robot policies.
- Build synthetic data generation pipelines on high-fidelity simulation platforms, and drive sim-to-real transfer.
- Develop data collection, training, and evaluation pipelines as production-quality code: extensible, well-documented, and usable by engineers outside your team.